Dissolving the Ego of Fashion

Engaging with Human Matters

The Fashion Professorship aims to rethink the cracks in the fashion system and the role that fashion plays – and could potentially play – in relation to urgent social, cultural, environmental and political developments in contemporary society. We envision an alternative and more engaged future of fashion in which we do more justice to fashion’s human dimension. Through research, design and critical thinking, we analyse and develop alternative approaches, systems, vocabularies and strategies. In doing so, we aim to activate the power of fashion to reimagine future bodies, future materials and future makers to contribute to resilient futures and inclusive societies.

conference

April 08, 2019 – April 12, 2019

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IFFTI Conference

This week, from April 8-12, the IFFTI conference takes place at Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Fashion Institute).

The conference theme is identity: personal identity, community identity and global identity

Theme:
Fashion impacts time, geography, economy and society. Due to technology and global activity we all consume, and aspire, have opinions and a sense of style. Fashion is material and symbolic. Clothing, wellbeing, performance, health and function are all aspects claimed by the fashion industry. The theme of Fashion: ID for the 2019 IFFTI conference intends to examine, redefine and challenge existing conventions, explore new thinking and technological evolution.

ArtEZ University of the Arts is a member institution of IFFTI and Danielle Bruggeman is a member of the research committee.